| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: head. A little, dusky-coloured wren (Scytalopus Magellanicus)
hops in a skulking manner among the entangled mass
of the fallen and decaying trunks. But the creeper (Oxyurus
tupinieri) is the commonest bird in the country. Throughout
the beech forests, high up and low down, in the most
gloomy, wet, and impenetrable ravines, it may be met with.
This little bird no doubt appears more numerous than it
really is, from its habit of following with seeming curiosity
any person who enters these silent woods: continually uttering
a harsh twitter, it flutters from tree to tree, within a few
feet of the intruder's face. It is far from wishing for the
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: therein.' He will reward them for their attribution; verily, He is
wise and knowing.
Losers are they who kill their children foolishly, without
knowledge, and who prohibit what God has bestowed upon them, forging a
lie against God; they have erred and are not guided.
He it is who brought forth gardens with trailed and untrailed vines,
and the palms and corn land, with various food, and olives, and
pomegranates, alike and unlike. Eat from the fruit thereof whene'er it
fruits, and bring the dues thereof on the day of harvest, and be not
extravagant; verily, He loves not the extravagant.
Of cattle are there some to ride on and to spread. Eat of what God
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: prayer I, too, rest mine. Moreover I pray for the same thing for which
they all pray and ever have prayed; besides, I have just as great a
need of it as those great saints, yea, even a greater one than they.
Let this be the first and most important point, that all our prayers
must be based and rest upon obedience to God, irrespective of our
person, whether we be sinners or saints, worthy or unworthy. And we
must know that God will not have it treated as a jest, but be angry,
and punish all who do not pray, as surely as He punishes all other
disobedience; next, that He will not suffer our prayers to be in vain
or lost. For if He did not intend to answer your prayer, He would not
bid you pray and add such a severe commandment to it.
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